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d1d793d
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My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.
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death
featureless
pacman
peak
peaks
ripples
rising
video-games
labyrinth
nothing
falling
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Haruki Murakami |
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1dfb049
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"We should do something," I said. "Can the something be play blind-guy video games while sitting on the couch?" "Yeah, that's just the kind of something I had in mind." So we sat there for a couple hours talking to the screen together, navigating this invisible labyrinthine cave without a single lumen of light. The most entertaining part of the game by was far trying to get the computer to engage with us in humorous conversation: Me: "Touch the cave wall." Computer: "You touch the cave wall. It is moist." Isaac: "Lick the cave wall." Computer: "I do not understand. Repeat?" Me: "Hump the cave wall." Computer: "You attempt to jump. You hit your head." Isaac: "Not jump. HUMP." Computer: "I don't understand." Isaac: "Dude, I've been alone in the dark in this cave for weeks and I need some relief. HUMP THE CAVE WALL." Computer: "You attempt to ju--" Me: "Thrust pelvis against cave wall." Computer: "I do not--" Isaac: "Make sweet love to the cave." Computer: "I do not--" Me: "FINE. Follow left branch." Computer: "You follow the left branch. The passage narrows." Me: "Crawl." Computer: "You crawl for one hundred yards. The passage narrows." Me: "Snake crawl." Computer: "You snake crawl for thirty yards. A trickle of water runs down your body. You reach a mound of small rocks blocking the passageway." Me: "Can I hump the cave now?" Computer: "You cannot jump without standing." Isaac: "I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand--" Isaac: "Me neither. Pause."
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death
humor
comic-relief
video-games
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John Green |
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777c95e
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Life's not a video game, Felix- there aren't a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn't actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.
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life
nw
zadie-smith
video-games
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Zadie Smith |
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2f0d142
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"Only the framing material," Lucas demurely, "obvious influences, Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he's known in my crib, God."
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ghost-in-the-shell
hideo-kojima
mgs
video-games
cyberpunk
japan
sci-fi
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Thomas Pynchon |
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06337cd
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Alright, go away. I have a tiny world to save.
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humor
video-games
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Bryan Lee O'Malley |
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1e31f16
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Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she's hosting the world's biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don't mind, I'm the Cool Girl.
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burping
cheap-beer
cool-girls
gang-bang
thresomes
dirty-jokes
video-games
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Gillian Flynn |
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e6760b7
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The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
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drinking
change
bar
electronic-software
the-public
the-recession
electronic-revolution
bourbon
new-age
electronics
the-future
video-games
the-internet
recession
tv
alcohol
the-past
electronic-books
americans
changes
technology
sarcasm
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Gillian Flynn |
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69326e8
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- I understand the world can be cruel place and there are people out there counting on naive kids like you to take advantage of. Don't just think because it's video games people can't get hurt.
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video-games
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Cory Doctorow |
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a17e6c4
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"Rashid did not give in. "Look how his hands move on the contols," he told her. "In those worlds left-handedness does not impede him. Amazingly, he is almost ambidextrous." Soraya snorted with annoyance. "Have you seen his handwriting?" she said. "Will his hedgehogs and plumbers help with that? Will his 'pisps' and 'wees' get him through school? Such names! They sound like going to the bathroom or what." Rashid began to smile placatingly. "The term is ," he began but Soraya turned on her heel and walked away, waving one hand high above her head. "Do not speak to me of such things," she said over her shoulder, speaking in her grandest voice. "I am in-console-able." --
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skills
video-games
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Salman Rushdie |
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ce69c4d
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It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of surreal image you'd expect to see on the cover of an old issue of Heavy Metal or Dragon magazine.
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science
key
undead-king
video-game
wade
wade-watts
ready-player-one
undead
video-games
quest
science-fiction
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Ernest Cline |